"...The position of the corporations using Dojo is obvious: They want to see Dojo succeed, and having a unified Grid component will ease their development costs significantly. However, for Mozilla, the goal is slightly more esoteric: We want to see the Open Web succeed (and by which, we mean the advancement of open software, standards, and development practices).

If you ask for the languages of the moment, you will hear people talk about Ruby, C#, JavaScript, Erlang, Python or even Haskell. You probably won't hear Perl mentioned. Perl's current standing is like that of JavaScript a few years ago.

This tutorial shows a number of examples from simplifying layout in general with 'CSS-less' layout managers, to dynamic loading of content in content panes, and how to create a wizard widget with a StackContainer and a small amount of scripting.

The release of Ubuntu and other user-friendly distributions has bolstered Linux’s popularity among IT pros and end-users alike. Yet Linux neophytes can still stumble over common tasks, like installing new software. In this IT Dojo video, I discuss common mistakes people make when they’re trying to add new Linux software. I also give you tips to make the installation process a bit easier.

Developers looking to build Ajax-style rich internet applications (RIA) are pretty much spoilt for choice at the moment.

"Ajax [1] is changing web applications, giving them a responsiveness that’s unheard of beyond the desktop. But behind all the hype, there’s not much to Ajax — (X)HTML [2], JavaScript [3], and XML [4] are nothing new, and in this tutorial, I’ll show you how to simplify the process of adding Ajax to your application even further with the help of jQuery, a popular JavaScript library."

Maintaining a complex web application that uses a lot of Javascript for client-side, "AJAX"-style interactivity is rather difficult. The clumsiness of the Javascript language itself, as well as the various tricks needed to make an application work consistently across multiple browsers, all of which must be wrapped up inside HTML, makes for a jumble of issues for the application developer.

Tibco Software Monday introduced a tool aimed at easing the development of enterprise mashups. The new Tibco PageBus, which the company describes as an open-source message bus, creates a "publish and subscribe" model that can help users more easily tie together Web services and Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (AJAX) components to create mashup applications.

ZK is an AJAX toolkit designed to make creating user interfaces that run in a Web browser as simple as creating event-driven interfaces for desktop applications. The interfaces created with ZK use an XML markup language to define the user interface and Java code to implement the Web application's functionality.